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Texas Organizing Project
Texas Organizing Project
stated on March 5, 2015 a press release
"The unemployment rate among blacks in Texas is 9.5% -- far more than double white unemployment -- and wages have fallen for black workers in Texas since 2000."
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By Alex Wilts • April 23, 2015
Jeb Bush
Jeb Bush
stated on April 17, 2015 a speech in New Hampshire
"We have an 80 percent graduation rate in high school after spending more per student than any country in the world other than Liechtenstein, I think, or Luxembourg and a couple other small countries."
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By Amy Sherman • April 21, 2015
Evan Bayh
Evan Bayh
stated on April 2, 2015 an interview in Concord, N.H.
"The fastest-growing part of the Pentagon’s budget are health care expenses."
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By Clay Wirestone • April 21, 2015
Elizabeth Roberts
Elizabeth Roberts
stated on March 2, 2015 a presentation to the Reinventing Medicaid Working Group
"More than 30 cents of every state tax dollar goes to Medicaid."
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By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • April 19, 2015
Jeb Bush
Jeb Bush
stated on April 14, 2015 an interview with the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
"We are in the sixth year of recovery, and median income is below what it was at the start of the recovery."
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By Louis Jacobson • April 16, 2015
NextGen Climate Action Committee
NextGen Climate Action Committee
stated on April 8, 2015 a blog post
Wisconsin’s attorney general and state treasurer ordered the daughter of Earth Day founder Gaylord Nelson not to discuss climate change on state time.
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By James B. Nelson • April 10, 2015
Sean Hannity
Sean Hannity
stated on April 8, 2015 a broadcast the Sean Hannity radio show
"You can’t build a Christian church in Saudi Arabia."  
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By Jon Greenberg • April 9, 2015
Rick Santorum
Rick Santorum
stated on April 5, 2015 an interview on "Face the Nation."
Seventy percent of Americans "don't have a college degree."
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By Katharina Fiedler • April 8, 2015
Mary Margaret Oliver
Mary Margaret Oliver
stated on March 31, 2015 a House floor debate
Lawmakers were paid for their off-season efforts to, for the first time, take the lead in drawing borders for two would-be cities.
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By April Hunt • April 7, 2015
Randy Forbes
Randy Forbes
stated on March 16, 2015 a blog.
"Did you know that the U.S. is one of the very few nations in the world without an official language?"
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By Warren Fiske • April 6, 2015
Scott Walker
Scott Walker
stated on March 14, 2015 a speech
Says he "paid one dollar for" a sweater at Kohl’s.
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By James B. Nelson • April 3, 2015
Starbucks
Starbucks
stated on March 20, 2015 a newspaper advertisement
"White people control almost 90 percent of the nation's wealth."
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March 31, 2015
Tom Price
Tom Price
stated on March 18, 2015 the 2016 Budget Resolution from House Budget Committee
Under current conditions, by 2023, the interest payments on the national debt will be $722 billion, larger than the projected defense spending of $696 billion.
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By April Hunt • March 27, 2015
Jess McIntosh
Jess McIntosh
stated on March 24, 2015 a broadcast of MSNBC's "All in with Chris Hayes"
Liberty University students "were mandated" to attend Sen. Ted Cruz’s presidential announcement "or they would be fined."
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By Jon Greenberg • March 25, 2015
Jerry Falwell Jr.
Jerry Falwell Jr.
stated on March 23, 2015 a speech introducing Ted Cruz at Liberty University
Ted Cruz was "the longest-serving solicitor general in the history of Texas."
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By Alex Wilts • March 25, 2015
Rich Golick
Rich Golick
stated on March 3, 2015 an Atlanta Journal-Constitution story
Uber and other ride-share firms are not required to carry auto insurance under Georgia law. 
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By April Hunt • March 20, 2015
Lena Taylor
Lena Taylor
stated on March 12, 2015 a news release
Polling shows that nearly 74 percent of National Rifle Association members "support requiring background checks for all gun sales."
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March 18, 2015
Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Atlanta Journal-Constitution
stated on February 10, 2015 news reports
The proposed transportation tax plan revokes a tax-credit for consumers’ electric cars while the state retains similar credits for similar vehicles for businesses.
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By April Hunt • March 16, 2015
The Associated Press
The Associated Press
stated on March 9, 2015 article
Under legislation that has cleared the Georgia House, some children who are "legal refugees" could obtain state scholarships to attend private schools.    
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By Nancy Badertscher • March 13, 2015
Gina Raimondo
Gina Raimondo
stated on February 19, 2015 a news conference
"Contrary to popular belief, we actually don’t have that many public employees…We are well below average in the number of public employees.’’
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By Katie Mulvaney • March 8, 2015
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